WARNING UP FRONT: The demon static makes an uninvited comeback near the end of this episode. We don’t know why. We don’t know how. We are sorry in advance. Sorry ’bout it.

Today we are ✨international✨, which means we’re talking with our hands and mispronouncing Italian words with confidence. We head to Poveglia Island, Italy’s most haunted little island of Nope, where plague victims were dumped en masse, the ground is basically made of human remains, and a wildly unethical doctor allegedly lost his mind before launching himself off a bell tower. Fishermen won’t go near it. Tourists aren’t allowed on it. Bells ring with no bell. Italy said “absolutely not” and locked it up forever. 🤌

MID-EPISODE CHAOS: Everything stops because Mischa is cold and aggressively demands her blanket like the tiny overlord she is. Ghosts? Can wait. Swamp monster? Can wait. Mischa? Cannot.

Then we dive into the Louisiana bayou for the Honey Island Swamp Monster—seven feet tall, red glowing eyes, covered in hair, smells like hot garbage, and leaves behind massive three-toed footprints. Sightings go back decades, animals have been found brutally mauled, and law enforcement has actually investigated. Is it Bigfoot’s swamp cousin? A feral human? A government oopsie? Whatever it is, if you hear something big moving toward you in the marsh… you’re already in trouble.

This episode includes plague ghosts, cursed islands, feral doctors, swamp cryptids, emergency blanket retrievals, and possessed audio. You’re technically Italian now. 🤌